Svetlana Melnyk, a woman pouring behind a dark bar in a low West Village room

Stoking the stove is the closest thing she has to a plan. A small fire in the middle of a sawdust floor, two kinds of ale

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Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.